2017 Christmas Shutdown

Christmas is fast approaching and we wanted to let you know that Dogsbody Technology will be taking some time off to celebrate the festive season. Our office will be closed on the following days and response to emails maybe slower: – Fri 15 Dec 2017 – Office Closed after 13:00 – Fri 22 Dec 2017 […]

#FoodbankAdvent 2017 – The Reverse Advent Calendar

As Foodbank demand soars in the UK Dogsbody Technology are proud to announce that this year instead of further charity giving or sending corporate gifts we will be taking part in the Reverse Advent Calendar #FoodbankAdvent by donating essential items to our local Farnborough Trussell Trust Foodbank. December is the busiest month of the year […]

End of Life for New Relic ‘Servers’ – What are your options?

Today (14 Nov 2017) New Relic are making their ‘Alerts’ and ‘Server’ services end of life (EOL). This will impact anyone who used this service to monitor server resources such as CPU, Memory, Disk Space and Disk IO. All existing alert policies will cease from today. If you rely on these alerts to monitor your […]

4 Common Server Setups For Your Web Application

There are so, so, many possibilities you may consider when designing your infrastructure, each with its distinct advantages and disadvantages. Here we’ll cover 4 of the most popular combinations, and explain the pros and cons of each. To start with, take the following bullet points and think for a moment how your architecture may differ […]

Cyber Security Awareness Month 2017

Dogsbody Technology is happy to be a champion of National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM) to get everyone thinking about their security online. Online safety is our shared responsibility, and it starts with STOP. THINK. CONNECT. STOP: make sure security measures are in place. THINK: about the consequences of your actions and behaviours online. CONNECT: and […]

Setting up IPv6 on your EC2

This is the second part of a two part series on setting up IPv6 in Amazon Web Services (AWS).  The first part discussed setting up IPv6 in your AWS VPC.  This second part will discuss setting up IPv6 on your EC2 instances. Why there are no new IPv4 jokes? Because it is exhausted! Seeing as […]